Safari 3 Is An Half-baked Web Browser from Apple, Wait for a Patch

Thanks for these tips. The fonts are working normally now.

For some reason Safari used my Metallica fontfile for Arial. Above change didn't do anything about it, but replacing metold.ttf with arial.ttf at the Arial key did the trick.

Thanks, without this I wouldn't have found the problem.

For me, I had to add the Lucide Grande and Lucida Grande Bold references in addition to those you supplied. Still, I couldn't have figured this out by myself. Thanks for the big help!! :-)

Came here after a week to find this entire page full of Safari. Is a new bug ridden browser such a big thing in the tech world that it can dominate the cover page for days?!

My Safari just doesn't display Arial Bold. (For example, Google's search results have gaps everywhere the searchterm occurs.) Everything else is rendered fine. I checked the fonts.plist file, and can see no problems there.

It's really very slow too!

Haven't tried this at home, but neither fix (renaming Lucida files or pasting in the code above) works, assuming I'm executing properly. I have no visible text, either on the browser itself (eg File, View, etc) or in the page window.

First of all, this is BETA SOFTWARE. It's not supposed to be perfect.

Rajesh - This software was released less than 24 hours ago, so no one has been talking about it 'for days'.

Thnx for the resources.. Real fast. Some problems, indeed beta, hopefully they will release a patch or new version.

Hi!
Apple Safari really sucks. I installed it and faced font problems. I followed your instructions and got the problem solved. But now, i am facing all new problem. Calibri font from my office 2007 package got corrupted. Can somebody help me out.

Managed to fix it on my machine when other solutions did not work. I copied the lucidia grande fonts from my c:\windows\fonts folder to the C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources folder and it worked like a charm. Surely Apple didn't use the wrong fonts for the PC version?

Hope this helps someone!

Adam,

I had the same problem. But installing it on one of my other machines did work. I could then copy the fonts.plist file from the working machine to the non working machine and it worked fine. Just an idea if you have another computer to do this with.,

Managed to fix this on my PC. Copied the lucidia grande fonts from the windows\fonts directory to the Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources directory. Surely Apple didn't forget to replace the font files with the PC version?

It cannot properly display Devnagari script (Hundi) either.

Raag

does anyone have the modified fonts.plist file?

It's nicely shot up and pretty interesting stuff for safari browser. I like it. thanks

जैसे कि राग ने अपनी टिप्पणी में ऊपर कहा है, सफ़ारी में हिन्दी की सामग्री भी ठीक से दिखाई नहीं देती और यह एक तरह से अनुपयोगी ही है!

when ever i try to print the safari program crashes. I have talked to apple many times and they have not fixed the problem.

I am really glad Apple release Safari for Windows because now I can do cross-browser compatibility testing on Safari without buying a MAC. According to some tests it seems that its slower then Firefox.

neither of the solutions proposed worked for me, but then I deleted the font.plist file alltogether and the problem was solved.

the browser still crashes too much. will wait for a better build.

i'm not even able to find the fonts.plist file in that folder!!

As far as my experience safari was only for beginner not for the regular users.

1.to go on the next tab they make ti vast.
2.Ctrl+Enter not working in adress bar.
3.Ctrl+F was not fixed on every tab.
4.Could not support google toolbar.
and many more......


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PUSHKAR KUMAR
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I am shocked--SHOCKED I tell you--that this beta software has bugs in it! LOL. Apple says it's BETA so you should not expect it to be PERFECT yet. :-P